The armed half-track

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Also on topic, some of the HTs had spare pintle mounts to allow embarked infantry to use their LMGs while riding. Typically, those LMGs would be taken with the infantry when they disembarked.

Soldiers being soldiers, it is more than likely that some/many HT crews scammed a spare .30 cal/MG 34/etc. and even maybe a spare crew member somewhere to make the pintle a permanent mount.

Mike

Mike,

Thanks. I was going to put a brief something together on the types of HT's used and how they were developed to fit the "fighting doctrines" of the countries involved. As you know there were many types and each country used them in a different way?
Similar to each other, in that they protected infantry as it moved into combat areas. Different in how far forward, or if they were thrust forward into the cauldron of the battle itself, to deploy their troopers.

Ed